Crossword clues for tap water
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. water that has come from a tap.
WordNet
n. water directly from the spigot
Wikipedia
Tap water (running water, city water, municipal water, etc.) is water supplied to a tap (valve). Its uses include drinking, washing, cooking, and the flushing of toilets. Indoor tap water is distributed through "indoor plumbing", which has existed since antiquity but was available to very few people until the second half of the 19th century when it began to propagate in what are now developed countries. Tap water became common in many regions during the 20th century, and is now lacking mainly among people in poverty, especially in developing countries.
Tap water is often culturally assumed to be drinking water, especially in developed countries. Usually it is potable, although water quality problems are not rare. Household water purification methods such as water filters, boiling, or distillation can be used when tap water's potability is doubted. The application of technologies (such as water treatment plants) involved in providing clean water to homes, businesses, and public buildings is a major subfield of sanitary engineering. Calling a water supply "tap water" distinguishes it from the other main types of fresh water which may be available; these include water from rainwater-collecting cisterns, water from village pumps or town pumps, or water carried from streams, rivers, or lakes (whose potability may vary).
Usage examples of "tap water".
In one of the jacket pockets went a whiskey flask filled with tap water.
The new dancers, veteran performers though they were, were fluoridated tap water compared to Salome's gourd of spiced mare's milk.
He tosses them into the tub, douses a towel with tap water and wipes himself.
Caffery sat at his desk into the early hours of the morning, facing out of the window, letting himself get drunk on Laphroaig and London tap water while outside the city folded down for the night.
Those of your who'll venture to live exclusively on NanoTech, won't always have tap water readily available, that's why the first thing that you've got to learn is how to extract water from the air.
The tap water, specially connected for the races, was brackish and seemed unclean.
I put on my lumber jacket (symbol of all that's old and wholesome) and ran some tap water, whatever was available, just to hear another noise.
Most certainly, though Bill cherished the highly challenging and rewarding vocation of Guano Engineering, and the rum was nice (even though he strongly suspected that it was dehydrated alcohol and rum essence that Rick mixed with tap water in the kitchen), it was the recreation hour that Bill enjoyed the most.
We take it for granted that when we turn on the tap water will flow, but that will not always be the case.
She didn't want to take it with tap water so she was going to the greenroom for a bottle of Evian.